2007 June

I get questions all the time from clients over at Ask the Geek about using a mail client’s message preview feature. Opinions vary, of course, but for this geek, it’s a bad idea. In order to preview a message, it has to be opened or rendered by the HTML engine. Think about how a PC [...]

It’s 2010, maybe sooner. A rogue nation has just declared war on your country. No one will be killed in this war, at least not directly. But people will die from starvation, disease, and in the general chaos caused by disruption in vital communications lines. The rogue nation’s primary weapon? Botnets capable of taking down [...]

After getting my Sunday dose of Windows Weekly from Leo and the folks at TWiT, I could hardly wait to check out Microsoft Surface. What an amazing demo! I want it. Of course, Surface is just Microsoft’s brand of multi-touch driven screen technology, a very cool demo of which, entitled Remapping the Universe, you’ll find here. This is [...]

I know Matt Hartley has had his own Network Nightmares!, but he ain’t the only one. (Thankfully, I have managed to solve the problem for my client.) Case in point:
A small manufacturing firm specializing in small jet engines & parts (I’d love to have one of their 450 hp turbines in my car!) called to say [...]

In my Fun Toy for Geeks post, I gave the impression that U3 technology is pretty cool. Opinions vary, as they usually do, but I have at least one major concern: U3 could be compromised and used to steal private information. All some hacker would have to do is hook into U3 so that it installs [...]